Feedback request: Myosoton aquaticum (18402)

[mossysal]

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Specimen #282089

Taxon:	Caryophyllaceae: Myosoton aquaticum (L.) Moench ("Water Chickweed")
Filed in taxon folder:	Caryophyllaceae: Myosoton aquaticum (L.) Moench ("Water Chickweed")
Collected by:	Rev Douglas Montague Heath
Collection date:	27/9/1948
Locality:	Great Britain, VC23 Oxfordshire, Weston Peat Pits, SP526194
ex herb:	Rev Douglas Montague Heath
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by snowbunting on 5^th November 2009.

Edit history

date	user	change
07/03/2011	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC38 Weston Peat Pits, Little Compton
07/03/2011	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC38 Little Compton, Weston Peat Pits
09/02/2016	mossysal	Deleted locality: GB VC38 Little Compton, Weston Peat Pits
09/02/2016	mossysal	Added locality: GB VC23 Weston Peat Pits SP526194 (place)

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User comments about this sheet

mossysal wrote

It looks as though the curating at BIRM is in error for this date. One of DMH's sheets from 27/9/1248 is from Kidlington [Sturdy Castle] - on the way to Weston-in-the-Green where there are Peat Pits. I can't find any reference on DMH's own labels to suggest that he was collecting at Little Compton that day. He writes Weston Peat Pits - and there is a SSSI at Weston Fen whose citation mention the Peat Pits http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1001158.pdf

[Roger Horton]

If DMH was living at Little Compton on 27/9/1948, and he collected the h@h specimens of that date from Weston Peat Pits/Sturdy Castle ~25km ESE, and from Wootton Wawen 25km NNW, he must surely have had a car!

There is a hamlet of Weston 4km north of Little Compton, but no signs of peat pits on the map.

[mossysal]

Surely not unlikely [my Dad had a motor bike [with sidecar] before the war!
Although he lived at Little Compton, there is no mention of it on any of the sheets for that day - and we know he went to Sturdy's Castle [about 5 miles away] on the same day from http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/295477/ . The fact that he also collected a number of sheets at Weston Peat Pits without further explanation of location suggests [to me] that it was a better known place than the Little Compton hamlet. There are references to Weston-on-the-Green Peat Pits in the botanical literature as far back as 1839. I suggest we refer this to Tom for a decision as we would be over-riding the BIRM curation. Shall I do it?

[Roger Horton]

Good idea!